Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

by John Green

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”

In general, colonial infrastructure was not built to strengthen communities; it was built to deplete them.

But of course people are not just their economic productivity. We do not exist primarily to be plugged into cost-benefit analyses. We are here to love and be loved, to understand and be understood.